The tech teams quietly pay to cloud vendors.
- 50% of organisations spend more than 40% of their cloud budget wastefully
- Average CPU utilisation on clusters: a mere 18%
- ₹52 lakhs per year wasted by each mid-sized organisation
This is not just waste. It's an invisible tax cutting into your innovation budget.
Organisations are fixing this through disciplined FinOps adoption:
Set up cost visibility tools (Kubecost, CAST AI) that enable team-level responsibility
Automate resource right-sizing using Vertical Pod Autoscaling and node optimisation
Strategically leverage spot instances for non-mission-critical workloads (45-80% savings)
Include cost metrics in deployment reviews along with performance and reliability
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